Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With that long-awaited formality, Lindsay changed not only his partisan label but also, quite possibly, the shape of Democratic national politics. On the eve of the 1972 presidential campaign, he has injected himself as a glamorous presence into the more liberal reaches of his new party and as a long-shot possibility to challenge Richard Nixon a year from November...
...match in a Cali bull ring also went wild when U.S. Middleweight Reginald Jones was awarded a close decision over Colombia's Bonifacio Avila Jones and his handlers had to be escorted out of the arena under a barrage of rocks and bottles. Noting the crowd's partisan cheering throughout the games, U.S. Decathlon Star Russ Hodge said: "They don't like us. Even in Russia they gave us better applause than they do here for a good performance...
Died. Gerald P. Nye, 78, Republican Senator from North Dakota for 19 years and one of the nation's foremost isolationists; in Washington, D.C. A crusading country editor and partisan of 1924 Progressive Party Presidential Candidate Robert La Follette, Nye was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1925. He arrived on Capitol Hill sporting bulbous yellow shoes and an "oaken-bucket haircut," but soon dispelled the notion that he was a bumpkin: he used his seat on the Public Lands Committee to expose the Teapot Dome oil-lease scandal. A steadfast foe of America's entry into...
...galleries at last week's British Open learned anything, it was: Don't mess with Supermex, otherwise known as Lee Trevino. Teamed with Britain's own Tony Jacklin in the third round, the gritty little Texan reacted to the crowd's partisan booing with typical machismo: "That only makes me fight harder." Fight he did. Scrambling as he had been doing all week, he started off the final round with four birdies on the first nine holes to take a seemingly insurmountable five-stroke lead. Then, on the treacherous 17th hole on the rolling moonscape of the Royal Birkdale Golf...
...Further downgraded his major rival, former Secret Police Chief Mieczyslaw Moczar, 57, leader of the ultranationalist, anti-Semitic "Partisan" wing of the Polish Communist Party. Moczar, who lost his post as boss of the police and army, in the Central Committee's Secretariat, has been relegated to auditor of government spending, usually a stepping stone to political oblivion...